Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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